London terrorist attacks: a note from Communion and Liberation

The Violence of Those Who Reject Reality

After Madrid, London. The great peace of postwar Europe is over. The factor that sows war is radical violence that refuses to accept reality, considering it wrong because it fails to correspond to its own vision, the sole determinant for what deserves to exist or be destroyed.

The London massacre reveals that Islamic radicalism is the tragic emergence of a nihilistic position, which is seeking to impose itself in Europe as elsewhere as the standard of thought and action. The terrorists show they are its coherent disciples.

In this situation of anti-human barbarity, as Benedict XVI has said, we will follow the Pope “in the certainty that charity is first of all communication of the truth”. And the truth is witness in the places of human experience where life is loved in its infinite value and in all its embodiments even more than the terrorists “love death”. Even the smallest attempt in this direction is not unavailing, because it affirms the inexorable positivity of reality, which nihilism can never overcome.

CL press office
Milan, 8 July 2005.